GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
CORE STATE
Barts
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
254 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
TeraScale 2
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2011
VS
GPU
Arc A310
CORE STATE
DG2-128
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1750 MHz
TDP
30 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Xe-HPG
PROCESS
6 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2022
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6850 X2
A310
Core Specs
Shading Units
960
768
-20.0%
Shaders
960
768
-20.0%
TMUs
48
32
-33.3%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
12
—
Execution Units
—
96
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1750 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1750 MHz
GPU Clock
800 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
4.2 Gbps effective
1937 MHz
15.5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
4,096
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
124.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
28.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
56.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.536 TFLOPS
2.688 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
—
672.0 GFLOPS (1:4)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
5.376 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
6
XMX Cores
—
96
Power
TDP
254 W
30 W
TDP (W)
254
30
-88.2%
Suggested PSU
600 W
200 W
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Xe-HPG
GPU Name
Barts
DG2-128
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6800)
Alchemist
(Arc 3)
Process Size
40 nm
6 nm
Transistors
1,700 million
7,200 million
Die Size
255 mm²
157 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
6.7M / mm²
45.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.4
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Single-slot
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Evergreen
Xe Graphics
Successor
Southern Islands
Battlemage